by Stoney deGeyter
After attending conferences, we always comes back ignited with new, bold and innovative ideas. We come back with more ideas on the table than we’ll be able to implement within the next twelve months. That’s both good and bad. Many of the ideas are simply spectacular but we lack the resources to […]
Google had a strong quarter, given the challenging US and global economic climate. Revenues were basically flat vs. Q1 (+3 percent) but grew 39 percent as compared with the same quarter a year ago. AdSense and paid clicks were down slightly.
Google may not be “recession proof,” but it’s more so than most other online […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google Has Over 75% Of US Search Ad Market New figures out on search advertising spend from Efficient Frontier show Google continues to dominate the market, stats […]
New figures out on search advertising spend from
Efficient Frontier show Google continues
to dominate the market, stats that will no doubt complicate the company’s
goal to gain approval of
its deal with Yahoo
[…]
The Google Video Blog announced the launch of personalized video recommendations, based on your search history. To see them, make sure you are logged into Google and visit video.google.com. In the middle of the page, you should see, “Recommended videos.”
Google uses your past search history and your past video viewing […]
The Google AdWords Blog announced that AdWords advertisers can now combine keyword-targeted and placement-targeted campaigns in the same ad group. This allows for the targeting of keywords on contextually relevant pages and at the same time the ability to use placements to set specific bids or restrict your targeting to specific sites. In […]
In the profit-centered business, customer happiness is merely a means to an end: maximizing profits. In the customer-centered business, customer happiness is an end in itself, and will be pursued with greater interest, passion, and empathy than the profit-centered business is capable of.
- Putting Customers Ahead of Investors, John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole […]
According to the Google Mobile Blog, the company is now giving users the ability to rate and review local restaurants from their mobile handsets via a browser (screenshot below). On the details page for a local business, users can “sign in and write review.” Though somewhat buried Google has made the process very simple; one […]
Blogs. They’re the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a website needs one. Or do they?
Lately, I’ve seen numerous instances of blogs that exist because people have heard that they need to create a blog for SEO purposes.
The problem with this, of course, is that any time you do anything just for […]
Many people have posed the question: why does Google seem to often fail to efficiently integrate or develop companies and properties it has acquired? Early mobile social network DodgeBall is the most obvious example of promising startup acquired by Google that has languished. But as TechCrunchIT points out there are others and, more specifically, often […]